"Had they known at these moments to be……" — Elizabeth Strout
"Had they known at these moments to be quietly joyful? Most likely not. People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that they were living it."
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52 Quotes by Elizabeth Strout
Elizabeth Strout has 52 quotes on this site.
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The key to contentment was to never ask why; she had learned that long ago.
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People like to think the younger generation's job is to steer the world to hell. But it's never true, is…
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Traits don't change, states of mind do.
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The appetites of the body were private battles.
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The facts didn't matter. Their stories mattered, and each of their stories belonged to each of them alone.
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In case you haven't noticed, people get hard-hearted against the people they hurt. Because they can't stand it. Literally. To…
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By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone.…
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I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point…
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He put the blinker on, pulled out onto the avenue. "Well, that was nice," she said, sitting back. They had…
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I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a…
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I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted…
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I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means…
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More Joyful Quotes
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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You can't get around pain and opposition, but you can try to be joyful in the trial, and thank yourself…
— Mary J. Blige
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Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with…
— Daniel Boone
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This is the most joyful day that ever I saw in my pilgrimage on earth.
— Donald Cargill
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Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ...…
— Gyorgy Kepes
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The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world. Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice.…
— Henry Knox Sherrill
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house... The joy of adventure is unaccountable. This is the attractiveness of…
— Agnes Martin
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Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful,…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness…
— Horace
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God has aroused the spirit of kings and princes to root up from the earth the enemies of the Christian…
— Bernard of Clairvaux
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A certain joyful, though humble, confidence becomes us when we pray in the Mediator's name. It is due to Him;…
— Nehemiah Adams
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